Yep, that's right: SMARTIES

As many of you probably know, in certain psychiatric cases, some people are not suffering from psychological conditions, but merely think they are.
So, some doctors give them 'medication' that will help the 'conditions of their abnormality cease'; it could be any kind of false illness a patient believes he/she is having...or suffering from.

Now...apply this to lucid dreaming.

I've been around this site for a while...longer than my joined date states.
I have seen COUNTLESS threads created on some pretty weird herbs to induce lucid dreaming as well as normal herbs...
Now...i bet some of these lucid dreaming 'herbs' don't work worth shit, it is just the power of suggestion. We think we are helping out neurological functioning by pumping in pills...

You cannot try this to yourself because you will know that you are giving yourself false pills, but hear me out:

Try this with a friend, give him a false kind of pill, SOMETHING HARMLESS, such as allergy medication, or just go to the drug store and get something to releive itchy toenails, but make sure it is harmless.
Now, give it to them and tell them that it will increase REM or something, and see the effects.

The power of suggestion is a bigger power than we give it credit for, believe me.

If you need me to expand, please, ask!
Cheers!